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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by cakealert on Thursday February 06, 2025 @02:22AM (#42959957)
Unfortunately, the best GUI in existence atm is a proprietary middleware and the language for it is XAML.

NoesisGUI: https://www.noesisengine.com/xamltoy/0e2a866b60bc2b9a724b4c6...

And it even has a studio for paying clients which makes designing a GUI trivial. https://www.noesisengine.com/studio/

The studio is made using their own GUI library and its sleek af. Not even QT holds a candle to it. Would have been nice to have such a project in the open source world.

Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by pjmlp on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:35AM (#42960332)
Qt certainly holds several candles, what happens is that people always complain about having to pay for tools, while expecting to be payed themselves.

https://www.qt.io/product/ui-design-tools

Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by mcintyre1994 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:22AM (#42960262)
Is that desktop only, or does their demo just not work on mobile but other stuff can? I don’t get a keyboard when I focus their password input on iOS Safari.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by lofaszvanitt on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:37AM (#42960345)
we need something like this but with a css-html-js output
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by andyjohnson0 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @07:55AM (#42961875)
https://platform.uno/ is an option for building web apps with xaml
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by johnisgood on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:56AM (#42962946)
.NET? Ugh.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by andyjohnson0 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:52PM (#42966861)
Care to say more than that?
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by johnisgood on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:23AM (#42971792)
Why would anyone choose .NET for anything non-Windows (or non-Microsoft)? Besides familiarity of course but that means jack shit.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by neonsunset on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:31AM (#42972300)
Why would anyone not choose one of the best platforms in 2025?
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by johnisgood on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:56AM (#42972522)
With C#, VB.NET, and F#?

Anyways, to each their own.

Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by neonsunset on Friday February 07, 2025 @09:33AM (#42972994)
Two of these are still ahead of the rest of the industry in their respective domains. And both are beautiful languages to write concise and performant code in.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by johnisgood on Friday February 07, 2025 @10:32AM (#42973793)
I prefer C, OCaml, Ada, Elixir, Go, Factor, Lua (LuaJIT), etc.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by neonsunset on Friday February 07, 2025 @10:48AM (#42974013)
Well, your loss.

If you want to criticize .NET, you should do better. We're really short on critics who can produce something substantiated. So far all the replies are of incredibly poor SNR.

Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by johnisgood on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:06AM (#42974235)
It was not a proper critique (as you noted) of .NET. I dislike anything JVM, too, including Clojure, while I do like Common Lisp.

If you give me an example use case, I would be able to tell you what I would use, however.

Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by dang on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:42AM (#43009383)
If you keep posting programming language flamewar comments to HN, we're going to have to ban you again. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html